Mary Edmonia Lewis, “Wildfire” (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an American sculptor, of unclean African American and Native American (Ojibwe) heritage. Born release in Upstate New York, she worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. She was the first African-American sculptor to accomplish national and later international prominence. She began to gain prominence in the United States during the Civil War; at the terminate of the 19th century, she remained the and no-one else Black girl artist who had participated in and been ascribed to any extent by the American artistic mainstream. In 2002, the scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Edmonia Lewis on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
Her sham is known for incorporating themes relating to Black people and native peoples of the Americas into Neoclassical-style sculpture.
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